Examining Digital Humanities and Technology

As part of one my modules, I was to design an online catalogue for displaying photos from the RCPI meetings over the years. We first digitised the film negatives through capturing them with a high-end DSLR and edited these captures through Photoshop to transform the negatives. This method does not give 100% colour accuracy but […]

As part of my masters, I undertook a module which placed us in a project involving the national science museum Maynooth. I found the experience to benefit me greatly not only in developing skills for photogrammetry but also for working as a team with set deadlines and goals. My position intentionally was to be digitising coordinator. […]

As stated previously we were experimenting with different textures through out the project. We took most of our textures from textures.com which supplies free textures for use in 3D models. For texturing the the church we used several different types of wood materials in order to give the church a varied look. We adjusted the […]

As part of our project we were to explore the possibility of implementing an animation in our model. In the end we decided to not implement the animation as we felt it did not add to the experience. This will be explored in the blog post as well as our original plans for an animation. […]

We divided the church into three overarching layers being lighting, roof and walls. Within this we had subdivisions for each object and the within this we placed the components which made each object. I found this organisation extremely helpful as it allowed me to easily isolated aspects of the church to work on. It also […]

I approached the construction of the walls from the design described by Ó’Carragáin. This involved a bottom wooden sill which contained square posts where the staves would be attached. This is a popular method for older buildings and the same method which is used in the Haltden stave church. To do this I measured out […]

We started work on the church and used the rough estimates from the work by Ó’Carragáin and the plans of the Haltden stave church for our measurements and floor plan. This took some adjustment however as the church looked rather unrealistic and out of proportion especially since the churches were described as being twice as […]

In my previous blog post I discussed the architecture behind the church design we were going with. This involved a stave palisade. I started by trying to create this kind of geometry. To create the basic shape I used a standard primitive box and set the dimensions. I increased the segments the boxes would need […]

The Irish landscape is scattered with the remnants of early Christian stone churches, however the majority of churches built before 900AD in Ireland were not conventionally made from stone (Ó’Carragáin, 2010). Due to this we have very little physical evidence on their shape or form. This lack of visual representation is one of the main […]

Over the past month I’ve been working with Harriet Wheelock keeper of collections at the RCPI heritage centre. The collection I’ve been working with is The Kirkpatrick Index. This is part of a wider set of collections by Thomas Kirkpatrick. The Kirkpatrick Index consists of manuscript notes, newspaper cuttings, photographs, documents etc which were collected […]